Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.
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If you run your own Mastodon server, it's really easy to add custom emoji to make it personalised. Here's a guide for admins on how to do it:
🌱 https://fedi.tips/using-custom-emoji-on-your-mastodon-server
People on other servers can see your custom emoji, but only you can use them (unless the other server adds the same custom emoji).
You can also clone emoji from other servers, and also block emoji if you see something unsuitable.
Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law
Link: https://themarkup.org/artificial-intelligence/2026/01/30/mamdani-to-kill-the-nyc-ai-chatbot-we-caught-telling-businesses-to-break-the-law
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46827665
If you run your own Mastodon server, it's really easy to add custom emoji to make it personalised. Here's a guide for admins on how to do it:
🌱 https://fedi.tips/using-custom-emoji-on-your-mastodon-server
People on other servers can see your custom emoji, but only you can use them (unless the other server adds the same custom emoji).
You can also clone emoji from other servers, and also block emoji if you see something unsuitable.
Ok, y'all, I heard you folx know your way around this "linux" thing, right?
For a first-timer, which WSL distro would you recommend to install on the domain controller?
@da_667
cries holding picture of ScreamingGoat
@nyanbinarymalte.nyanbinary
Breakfast was late this morning
Me, yesterday: yay, I found a new book to read! 
Me, today: boo, I finished the book really fast because I liked it and now I need to find a new book to read. 
아 ㅡㅡ 피크민은 유저 신고가 없나.. 집에서 바로 뜨는 버섯이 소형 회색으로 떴는데, 뭐하러 다섯명이 붙어있나 싶었는데, 일부러 5일동안 버섯 막아놓으려고 장난질 쳐놓은 거였어
Ode to the AA Battery
Link: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/ode-to-the-aa-battery/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46824400
Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf]
Link: https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2.5/blob/master/tech_report.pdf
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46826597
Youtubers ten years ago: Woah....dead internet theory...wouldn't it be bad if social media was all AI pretending to be human?
ClawdBot/MoltAI/MoldAI/OpenClaws devs: I'm proud to announce Dead Internet as a Service
Me, yesterday: yay, I found a new book to read!
Me, today: boo, I finished the book really fast because I liked it and now I need to find a new book to read.
I've only gone and redesigned my website!
now just gotta build it...
Youtubers ten years ago: Woah....dead internet theory...wouldn't it be bad if social media was all AI pretending to be human?
ClawdBot/MoltAI/MoldAI/OpenClaws devs: I'm proud to announce Dead Internet as a Service
quick lunchbreak hackery on the Altium pcbdoc format is already paying off. reversed most of the binary format for the track data.
Join the FOSDEM Treasure Hunt! https://fosdem.org/2026/news/2026-01-30-treasure-hunt/
Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now https://lobste.rs/s/wmszcd #vibecoding
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/
"Do not look into laser with remaining kitten"
Oy *asked* to play laser! He got up on the turntable and pawed at the laser pointer hanging on the key hooks.
"My friends are lying in FOSDEM, I wish that I was there..." 🎶🇧🇪
Apologies to Pink Floyd for the slight lyric change, but that’s exactly how I feel today. I have some genuine, healthy envy for everyone gathering in Brussels this weekend!
Even though I can't be there in person, I’ll be there in spirit. Have an absolute blast, soak up the atmosphere, and learn everything you can. I am really looking forward to reading all your trip reports and blog posts in the coming days to catch up on what I missed.
Enjoy the waffles and the code...and the BSDs! 🍻 
피고해서 명암 개판
btw any podcast recommendations ? like really anything , as long as they have an RSS feed , need stuff to replace youtube as background stuffing
We need Ruffle for Klik'n'Play
The National Herbarium of Ireland digital collection of Irish plants
Link: https://dri.ie/news/new-collection-in-dri-the-national-herbarium-of-ireland-digital-collection-of-irish-plants/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46782412
Spent half an hour trying to figure out how to escape a semicolon in CMAKE_ARGS. It's a nasty problem, whenever the variable value is used to set another variable, the semicolon character becomes a list separator, so the number of escapes depends on the number of variable expansions... The solution is to use the generator expression $<SEMICOLON>... (only for CMake 3.3+).
お腹痛くて起きた
걍 빵이나 먹었다
whoa, afl++ looks cool
4号車前から3番目 空いてるな
なお今日もお腹痛い模様
Closing some tabs…
An /r/AskHistorians moment I greatly enjoyed: years ago, a user complained that seeing a Black officer in Frozen 2 "immediately took [them] out of the movie", and asked if that was realistic for 1860s Scandinavia—only to be informed that there is a long history of Black people as members of European (including Scandinavian) royal courts, and the movie character may well have been based on an actual person, John Panzio Tockson, a well-known personal servant to the Swedish King in the era the movie was set. In other words, one of the most historically accurate features of a movie featuring "trolls and ice magic", as the respondent quipped.
The respondent recently commented, "My answer was brief, cursory, and just not enough in my mind. I then spent 6 years looking deeper into his life, doing it as a side-project while pursuing other research." It's now a published and open access paper in The Scandinavian Journal of History: "Picturing John Panzio Tockson: Afro-Swedish identity, racialization, and black self-fashioning in late nineteenth-century Sweden"—looking at Tockson's life, how media of the time portrayed him (spoiler: racistly), and how he may have portrayed himself.
@silverpill, should I use the #Ukrainian interface option in #Mitra to mark #ActivityPub posts with this language (instead of #English), or is the interface option not related? I just can't find this in the message form.
In #Tuba app, I can simply select the content language, but I'm not sure about the default web UI behavior.
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Something is ... "Off" for the lack of a better word.
So many questions... It does certainly keep it from "working to specifications."
Getting nothing done because thinking is ... Eh? On the other hand thinking does actually result in some things moving on.
Something is fishy... But not necessarily in a bad way? Don't know if that makes sense... 
today I visit the animal shelter for a first kitty date with a couple of VERY pretty kitties that used to live in a feral cat colony.
It'll take multiple visits before the humane society decides whether or not we're suitable to adopt. Keep your fingers crossed!
First meeting went well! The kitties seem to like us. We need a few more meetings with them to make sure we're a good fit, but I"m hopeful
Had a grumpy lil borb hanging out and warming up in the sun yesterday morning. 🥹
I think chatbots should be required to have a permanent warning under the input textbox...
WARNING: Some users may experience manic episodes, psychosis, or thoughts of suicide when using this tool. The responses are predictive texts based on algorithms and should not be confused for intelligence.
https://pythonbynight.com/blog/the-way-i-think-normal-people-do
하 근데 몸 담그기보다 찜질방이 너무 기분좋았어서.. 그 욕탕 내 찜질방.. 거기서 나가지 않은 채, 그냥 아예 수건 깔고 잠들고 싶었다.. 하지만 그러면 다음날 수육으로 발견되었겠죠......
The #FOSDEM #Fediverse meetup has federated six tables together - so far.
히히.. 결국 한 번 더 담그고 땀 빼구 왔어요.. 너무 기분좋아서 더 있고 싶었지만 너무 하면 또 피부에 안좋으니까..ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ.. 하 끝이 있어야 또 이 경험을 추억하고 또 바라고 기대하게 되는거겠죠.. 이제 진짜 집 가서 자야지 히히.. 오늘도 공사를 하기 때문에.. 오늘도 못 씻을 수 있으니까요🥲
月はデカいから低いんじゃなくて低いからデカく見えるんだよね #月が綺麗ですね
Mood
熟練クソネミオフトゥン職人の朝は眠い
Stefano Marinelli
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
David Guillot
